VLT® HVAC Drive FC 102

Get even more drive in your HVAC – with rock-bottom lifecycle costs in any climate

Get even higher reliability and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) in your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) installations, with this unique VSD optimized for building automation systems.

More than ever, the extreme climates, inaccessible machine rooms and isolated outposts of our planet need the best process control there is for their HVAC installations. Your everyday critical functions and costly systems need it too, as they face ever-increasing competition and efficiency demands. Always with high performance in mind, the enhanced VLT® HVAC Drive gives you more room to maneuver. It confronts the issues and gives you rock-solid reliability. With rock-bottom lifecycle costs too.

Endorsed by the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions as a Solar Impulse Efficient Solution.

The 1000 Efficient Solutions comprise the very best the world has to offer in clean and profitable solutions to protect the environment. VLT HVAC Drive achieved the top score of 4.0, assessed on the criteria of viability, deployability, and sustainability.

Features and benefits

Slim down your TCO. Ongoing demands for lower TCO are challenges the VLT® HVAC Drive can help you meet.

Install it outdoors in extreme climates. Searing heat and deep frost are all in a day’s work for the enhanced VLT® HVAC Drive. You get full reliability running this drive outdoors with temperature extremes from 50°C to minus 25°C.

Control multiple IE5 PM motors. Bring energy efficiency to a new level in your fan and pump applications. You can even control multiple IE5 permanent magnet (PM) motors using only a single drive.

Save time. You can parameterize and troubleshoot the drive from outside the AHU, thanks to the remote LCP. Maximize uptime by reducing the shutdown, since there is no need to open up the AHU and lock it down again afterwards.

Get the freedom to choose your favorite motor. Choose exactly the motor you prefer, for whatever reason from supply security to performance optimization. The enhanced VLT® HVAC Drive is not only optimized to control induction, permanent magnet and synchronous reluctance motor technologies; our development team is working all the time to include compatibility with upcoming motor technologies in future software updates as well.

Get the freedom to communicate. The ability to integrate the AC drive easily into your building automation system is a key to optimal control. The VLT® HVAC Drive features a number of HVAC-specific communication protocols, such as BACnet/IP, that give you flexibility of installation in both new and existing building automation systems.

Variable speed control of a chiller allows you to provide constant pressure regulation while matching the capacity to the actual need based on measurements in the system. Speed control is beneficial when a compressor runs for long periods at partial load. Reduce operational costs by running applications at a lower speed which reduces energy consumption. And reduce installation costs by optimizing the system and the compressor itself.

Get more out of your air handling units, using fan control that gives you easy air filter monitoring and built-in fire safety features.

Case studies

Cool tech for ice hockey ensures perfect match conditions

When talking about ice hockey arenas, whether you are a player or a spectator, you’re always on the winning team with Danfoss.

The fans of the Doha Metro achieve – maximum energy efficiency and reliability

Tailored for HVAC, flexible, modular and adaptable applications, the frequency control has played a key role in the ventilation system. It was the perfect fit, both in terms of EMC requirements, safety, harmonics, long cable lengths and dimensions, as well as its ability to function in temperatures of up to 50°C without loss of power.

Equinix server rooms – Totally reliable air conditioning

Equinix connects the world’s leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centers.

Copenhagen Cityringen – Tight spaces made manageable

Cityringen brings a new, completely automated underground line to the center of the Danish capital.

Danfoss building technology: reliability at its best

Three departments, one solution: the reliability of Danfoss building technology took centre stage at the newly build eye clinic in Tübingen. Danfoss components meet the highest requirements of medical centres, while being reliable and energy efficient.